Line of Departure Issue 82 (Spring 2019) is now available for purchase. The articles include a review of Forgotten Legions (Compass Games), along with analysis of Oil War (SPI), Acre (Decision Games), Ring of Fire (Moments in History), along with Tobruk (Avalon Hill). To read the Bully Pulpit editorial and see the full table of contents,…

As a high school teacher, one of the things I've never heard (in 31 years) is a 16 y.o. female student describe a wargame as (and I quote) "The most awesome game ever...." She was talking about Napoleon (the AH version) that she played at game club "pizza and games" night. (see my last blog....)

How would one react? Well, I just so happened to have a new copy of the CG version I'd picked up last summer at a store clearnace in Santa Clara (for $5!). So student "K" is now the proud…

It's been a while since I logged into the CSW Social site. Thought I'd take this opportunity to post about my new endeavor, Canvas Temple Publishing. Essentially it's a low-key vanity press for me and some friends to publish games we want to publish (rather than what anyone else wants :-). A number of friends have signed up and given me designs, and so far we've run 3 successful Kickstarter campaigns, with another running right now.

A while ago I thought it might be fun to take all the SCS games I have on Vassal and play them as one continuous campaign.

I will play every scenario, starting with those in Guadalajara and continue in chronological order right up to the last scenario of Bastogne. All scenario results will be kept, keeping a sort of "running score" of Axis and Allied progress up to the end of WW2.

Each scenario will also be posted on this blog as a "War Diary", taking the form of…

Line of Departure has a new seasonal special, just in time for the holidays. This one presents five back issues, with articles on irregular and guerrilla warfare. Considering that the issues go from 1993 to 2017, this is a good way to see how the magazine has evolved over the…